Earning community trust to operate – Northern Gas Pipeline

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Jonathan Spink
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Compressor Station ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Gas Processing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Support Services ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
Base Load

The Northern Gas Pipeline (NGP), is a 622-km gas pipeline in outback Australia that will connect gas reserves in the Northern Territory to the east coast gas market. With the current east coast gas crisis and continuing pressure to reduce coal-fired base load power, this project creates a new market to deliver additional gas to the east coast. The project includes the construction of the pipeline and two compressor station facilities at the start and end of the line: the Phillip Creek Compressor Station, which includes gas processing infrastructure, and the Mount Isa Compressor Station. The AU$800 million project began in November 2015 and first gas is scheduled to flow in late 2018. The bid to contract the pipeline included a range of local and Indigenous commitments that would maximise local participation in the project, ensuring that the social licence to achieve land access and government approvals was realised while keeping to a very aggressive timetable. Jemena worked closely with local businesses, communities and Traditional Owners to provide training and development opportunities, employment and other social support services. This approach has meant that the project is on track to deliver this nationally significant gas pipeline under budget, ahead of the contractual schedule requirement, while meeting or exceeding all local obligations and commitments.

Jemena's perspective on Australian gas market dynamics: a vision of a fiercely competitive market facilitated by an interconnected supply chain

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
David Green ◽  
Thomas Allen
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gas Price

As pipeliners, we take a long-term view of the transformative opportunities facing the Australian gas industry. We believe a market-driven approach will overcome the current challenges around gas price volatility and supply constraints by further developing the missing links that will enable genuine connectedness, greater flexibility and operating synergies across a national gas transportation grid – one that can deliver gas where it is needed most and at the right price. Looking at mature gas trading environments like the USA provides some aspirational direction in terms of the fluidity of the gas trading environment, where pricing is more dynamic. However, the past and present development opportunities within our own backyard also provide valuable insight. Building the Eastern Gas Pipeline transformed the east coast gas market by introducing a competitive alternative for gas transportation into Sydney and upstream competition between basins. A similar market-led opportunity exists today to build infrastructure connecting Northern Territory gas producers to east coast markets – introducing a competitive alternative for gas transportation and upstream competition between the Beetaloo/McArthur basins and the Surat/Bowen basins. Winning the right to build the Northern Gas Pipeline was an important first step in Jemena realising this vision. Current regulatory discussions would not be relevant if the industry can shape its own market. Jemena’s northern Australia growth strategy could be the catalyst to resolving these challenges and avoiding further gas constraints or Australian Competition and Consumer Commission interventions seeking to address theoretical issues, rather than solving actual market challenges.

Gas Compressor Service With Turbo Compressors

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Pereira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Operating Cost ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Feasibility Analysis ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Compressor Station ◽  
Centrifugal Compressors ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Gas Compression ◽  
Capital Intensive

Gas pipeline projects are capital intensive and normally are developed under scenarios of uncertainty. Such uncertainties vary from closing take-or-pay, ship-or-pay or delivery-or-pay agreements to those uncertainties related to the acquisition of equipments, material and construction and assembling contracts. Natural gas compression service contracts with compressor station using gas motors and reciprocating compressors have been widely adopted at PETROBRAS as economically feasible against holding the stations as part of the pipeline asset as well as providing an effective approach to mitigate risks inherent to the gas business and associated to the compressor stations. Although compression service contracts with turbo compressors (gas turbine drivers and centrifugal compressors) have not yet been accomplished at PETROBRAS for gas pipeline projects, studies and preliminaries discussions shows that, taken into consideration certain relevant aspects, they will also present great opportunity to be adopted and will generate the same advantages already perceived for the compression service contracts with stations that uses gas motor drivers and reciprocation compressors. This paper has the objective of presenting an economic approach and a business model addressing the main points that must be considered while doing feasibility analysis between the alternatives of holding property of the compression station asset against the opportunity of having a compression service contract as operating cost for the project. Questions such as how to address depreciation, overhaul costs and tailor made equipment, such as centrifugal compressors, are raised and answered.

scholarly journals Influences Des Modes D’accès A La Terre Sur La Production Agricole Dans Les Communes De Dassa-Zoumé Et De Glazouè Au Centre Du Bènin

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 412
Author(s):  
Kadjegbin Toundé Roméo Gislain ◽  
Yabi Ibouraima ◽  
Adjakpa T. Théodore ◽  
Kotchare Parfaite ◽  
Sewade Sokegbe Grégoire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Binding Modes ◽  
Land Access ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Swot Analyses

The land plays an important role in the social and economic life of the populations of all of the world in general and in the rural world in particular in such a way that it constitutes the essential support of every agricultural activity. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of the access to land on the agricultural production in the communes of Dassa-Zoumé and Glazoué. From a sample of 279 farm households, the study of the influence of land access on the agricultural production in the communes of Dassa-Zoumé and Glazoué was made using the questionnaire sent to farmers and CARDER/Zou authorities. In order to collect reliable information, a presurvey was carried out at first, followed by an individual interview, a focus group and a MARP ( Active Participatory Research Method). Similarly, the SWOT analyses model was used and the Ruthenberg coefficient was calculated to better appreciate the cropping system used in both communities. At the end of the analyses, we can notice that in the communes of DassaZoumé and Glazoué, inheritance remains the main modes of access to land with 82,9%, followed by ‘’donation’’with5,1%, then the borrowingwith4,3% and the collective appropriation(2,6%), renting(1,7%), sharecropping(1,7%) and the purchase(1,7%). OF these different modes of access, the inheritance is the most privileged while renting, sharecropping and buying constitute binding modes. These different modes of access determine the different uses that can be made of rural land and constitute either a constraint or an asset for agricultural production.

Identification of the socio-technical factors within geothermal exploration based on Plays with examples from Central America 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javiera Chocobar ◽  
Bernhardt Johst ◽  
Rolf Bracke ◽  
Erik H. Saenger
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Geothermal Exploration ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Land Access ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Factors

<p>     The development of geothermal exploration has benefited from the inclusion of exploration protocols based on geological Plays classically used in hydrocarbon exploration projects. Despite being a research topic in which many efforts have been devoted, it presents weaknesses when evaluating the role of the communities (the social dimension) during the exploration process. To address the lack of studies, a qualitative research has been carried out in Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá) to determine the necessary factors to be considered in the social dimension within the geothermal exploration based in Plays.</p><p>     We have identified the social factors within each social dimension (demand, infrastructure, land access) and from this, a catalogue of the necessary activities required in the social dimension during the geothermal exploration process based on plays is proposed. The results of our survey will greatly contribute to the implementation of the Play-based exploration in geothermal projects because it reduces the risks associated in the initial phase of the exploration process and offers a step-by-step methodology that, when adapted to the needs of each country, can improve the efficiency of the current geothermal exploration protocols.</p>

scholarly journals Household Land Allocations and the Youth Land Access Nexus: Evidence from the Techiman Area of Ghana

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Kwaku Kidido ◽  
Monica Lengoiboni
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
And Control

Building inclusive societies that reflect the needs of all categories of people within the social spectrum is critical to achieving sustainable development. This is reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which among things seek to ‘by 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex. This places enormous tasks on all governments especially in developing countries like Ghana to ensure that the youth are not left behind in access and control over land as a building block for economic empowerment. This task is particularly critical in view of the sheer numbers of the youth and yet economically marginalized underpinned by high levels of unemployment and underemployment. This case study investigates the youth land rights within the context of household landholdings and allocations dynamics. The study took place in the Techiman area in Ghana. The study sampled 455 youth and 138 household heads. The study revealed that household lands are important building block for majority of the youth in the Techiman area. It gives them a sense of security in the usage. However, the youth’s ability to depend on this source to kick start independence economic life is beset with land scarcity, non-allocation and accumulation by the lineage heads who have prerogative over household lands. The study underscores the need for social welfare scheme for the aged farmers so that they can timely release land to the younger ones without fearing for what to sustain them. There is also the need for government to create land banks to support the willing youth to engage in agriculture.

Familiar Strangers

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-346
Author(s):  
Peter Baskerville
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Benchmark Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Economic Circumstance ◽  
Shed Light

Much has been written about boarding and lodging in late-nineteenthcentury North America. Modell and Hareven 1977 provides a benchmark study of boarding in East Coast urban centers in the United States. For Canada, Medjuck 1980; Katz 1975; Katz et al. 1982; Harney 1978; Bradbury 1984, 1993; and Harris 1992, 1994, and 1996 shed light on aspects of boarding in various Canadian urban communities from the 1850s to the 1950s. In general these studies emphasize the importance of family cycles and economic circumstance for an understanding of the boarding process (see also Robinson 1993; Shergold 1982). Some point to the similarity in social and class background of boarders and boardinghouse keepers (Harney 1978;Medjuck 1980; Modell and Hareven 1977; Harris 1992). Literature on boardinghouse keeping has focused generally, however, on the economic rather than the social or cultural importance of boarding. Even when cultural implications are explored, the unit of analysis is that of community or region or, as in the literature on the acculturation of newcomers, on sojourners and immigrants only

Economic impacts and effects on communities of the CSG industry in Queensland

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Nicole Thomas ◽  
Ross Lambie ◽  
Wayne Calder
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
Social Licence To Operate

Social licence to operate is a key issue in the eastern Australian gas market as it transitions to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting and relies on unconventional gas to satisfy this new demand. Although there is a large body of research on the environmental, social and economic effects attributable to unconventional gas activities, more knowledge is needed about the economic impacts of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry and the effects of the various stages in the CSG value chain experienced by communities. The Department of Industry has undertaken a study on Queensland’s experience with CSG development. A synthesis of existing economic impact studies relating to the CSG industry in Queensland finds that while there are economic benefits, a greater understanding of how the benefits and costs are spread among and in communities is needed. It also finds that there is little knowledge of the cumulative impacts of multiple concurrent projects in addition to the impacts of existing land usage. An assessment of effects from CSG activities that may directly or indirectly affect the economic welfare of communities in the Bowen and Surat basins highlights that while health impacts, land access and usage, water impacts, transport nuisance and noise pollution are all perceived to be significant, community perceptions about these effects change in time along with changes in the nature and scale of underlying activities. Opportunities for specific economic analysis on specific CSG activities and their associated consequences are also identified in this extended abstract, which may assist in addressing existing information and regulatory gaps.

Meeting demand in a new era of east coast gas supply

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 686
Author(s):  
Will Pulsford
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
New Era ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Project Life ◽  
Gas Supply

Historically LNG projects have been established to monetise large gas finds in remote areas with little existing gas demand. The development of gas supply to the LNG project generally stimulated demand growth in the domestic gas market. As the supplying fields depleted, the LNG projects faced competition with domestic producers for declining gas supplies, but this was late in the project life when LNG plant capital had already been recovered. Recently, LNG export projects have been established within existing mature gas markets, most notably in Australia and North America. These plants now face competition with domestic gas consumers for access to feed gas from the beginning of their operational life when strong revenue has the greatest impact on the return earned on capital invested, with the greatest stress felt in Australia. This paper considers the underlying causes of domestic price rises experienced in Australia following the start-up of LNG export supplied from gas fields linked to the domestic market and the response by both plant developers/operators and the government. This historical view is used to inform forecasts of how the east coast gas market will react to the interplay between domestic and LNG plant demand, declining Bass Strait production, maturing CSG operations, LNG imports and completion of the Northern Gas Pipeline. In particular the ability of gas supply and pipeline capacity to meet the strongly seasonal domestic demand in Victoria and to a lesser extent NSW will be examined, together with the linkage to counter-cyclical seasonal demand for LNG from the Queensland LNG export plants in the key north Asian markets.

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